13 strokes
                                                    
                        Jouyou kanji
            Taught in 11th grade
    
                                            break, destroy, censure, be chipped, be scratched, be broken, be ruined
Kun'yomi
- こぼ - つ - to destroy 
- こ - ぼ - れ - る - to be chipped 
- こ - わ - す - to break ②to wreck ③to break (a bill, etc.) 
- こ - わ - れ - る - to be broken ②to break (down) ③to fall through (of a plan, deal, etc.) 
- そし - る 
- やぶ - る 
On'yomi
- キ 
Character Breakdown
Contained In
Common Words
                                    abolish Buddhism, destroy Shākyamuni (slogan of anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era)
                                
                            References
| Unicode hex code | 6BC0 | 
| JIS X 0208 | 1-52-44 | 
| Nelson, A. Classic Nelson | 2460 | 
| Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary | 3000 | 
| Halpern, J. New Japanese-English Character Dictionary | 1791 | 
| Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary | 2246 | 
| Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) | 1592 | 
| Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji | 2067 | 
| Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. | 1532 | 
| Morohashi Daikanwajiten | 16654 | 
| Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) | 1897 | 
| Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code | 3b10.14 | 
| Four corner code | 7714.7 |